New architecture and design competitions: Warming Huts, Interior Design Awards, Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellowship, and Pyeongtaek-si Administrative Town

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Interior view of “The Hole Idea – Now in Technicolor” by Weiss Architecture & Urbanism, a Warming Huts 2015 winner. The 2025 edition is now open for entries (details below). Photo: Leif Norman.

For this week’s curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we are highlighting four briefs seeking Warming Hut concepts to provide shelter and community this winter in Winnipeg, the year’s most outstanding interior designs, academic fellowships to get involved at the next Exhibit Columbus cycle, and planning ideas for a new administrative town in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.

For the complete directory of newly listed competitions, click here.

The International Competition for the Pyeongtaek-si Administrative Town
Registration Deadline: Friday, Aug 23, 2024
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, Nov 13, 2024

“Pyeongtaek-si plans to establish an administrative town that integrates the city hall and city council, aiming to create an efficient communication structure between administrative and legislative functions. The relocation to the Godeok International New City area will enhance accessibility and convenience, providing high-quality public services to local residents. The new administrative town aims to be a public building that is more accessible to the community while serving as a platform for diverse and evolving administrative functions. As a young city, Pyeongtaek hopes the new city hall will accommodate expanding administrative functions based on IT industries.”

2024–25 Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellowship Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Thursday, Sep 12, 2024

“This year, University Design Research Fellows will be awarded to full-time university/college professors in any area of design, architecture, art, and landscape architecture. UDRFellows will be shortlisted and selected by the 2024–25 Curatorial Partners based on the Request for Qualifications process.
Upon application and acceptance, participants are required to participate in the 2024 Symposium, 2025 Design Presentations, and ultimately, in the 2025 Exhibition to design/build a public installation that showcases their research.”

2024 Interior Design Best of Year Awards
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Sep 13, 2024

“Celebrating its 19th year, Interior Design’s Best of Year is the design industry’s premier awards program, honoring the most significant projects and products of the year as well as recognizing designers, architects, and manufacturers from around the globe. The 2024 Interior Design Best of Year Awards stand as the definitive hallmark of excellence, celebrating the greatest design achievements of today while setting the stage for the next wave of design brilliance.”

Warming Huts V.2025: An Arts & Architecture Competition on Ice
Register/Submit Deadline: Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024

“Three teams will be selected as winners of the WARMING HUTS COMPETITION: Arts + Architecture Competition on Ice from submissions of designs for a warming hut or art installation. Winning entries will be placed along the Nestaweya River Trail located on the Assiniboine and Red rivers in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A jury will select the winning designs based on their creativity in use of materials, providing shelter, poetics of assembly and form, integration with the landscape, and ease of construction.”

Would you like to contribute competitions, award programs, or calls for submissions that aren’t listed on Bustler yet? Send them directly to our team to review. We may include them in our next roundup.